STILL VERY WIP
Despite what you may think, Bruvbox is heavily inspired by - and in fact, forked from - Gruvbox. Turns out the Gruvbox I love ain't the original, but a massively desaturated version courtesy of perma-cranked iTerm minimum contrast. With the entire web similarly washed out (an aside of the excellent Deluminate inversion extension) I never noticed. Apart from that, needs more blue.
Same retro feel, partly overlapping hues, but that red-yellow-orange dominance flipped towards shades of blue, moss green, red, and bleached yellow and green. Truecolor gets properly leveraged through a six-shade palette for each color, rounded out with 20 shades of gray. Such overkill wankery lets every color type be appropriately used no matter the background luminance: Very faint text background let diffs retain original syntax highlight while still clearly differentiating + and -, makes it easy to spot the exact column of that linter error, even in a terminal, without looking like shit. And subtly raising the background of important syntax keywords makes them stand out without compromising the foreground or resorting to loud colors.
- Multiple levels of "non-active" area background, giving a rare glue and coherency for non-buffer elements without losing separation from the actual buffer.
Ordinary syntax also makes heavy use of subtle color and style variations to differentiate grouped syntax items, such as conditionals and loops.
This means clarity can be retained, or even furthered, even though the colors are nicely faded and contrast low.
- A terminal (and Vim) setup allowing 24 bit color
- DevIcons (including powerline, etc)
- Airline
- that fade inactive pane plug
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[NeoVim][]
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[Fira Code][] or similar ligature-supporting font
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No, or just a hint of, transparency. Heavy transparency will probably work better with a higher-contrast theme than this one...
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Enabling the full theme including symbols and glyphs.
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If using iTerm or other terminal with similar features, go easy on the "minimum contrast" and "cursor guide" options. If you're like me and can't live without them in your shell, wrap your vim invocation in a profile switch
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NERDTree, Startify
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[tmux][]
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line numbers auto change color
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Focus on maintaining look across languages
The code is also modified, and there are many new features and customizations available - much more is exposed through variables.
Little attention has been paid to the light variant as of yet.
Yes, fix
Beest
Shitty
Yes
One of the things dropped for now, might return. Plan is a full scale instead of discrete steps.
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Looks fine as hell
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Most existing Gruvbox options and customizations
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Lots of further options, all with thought-out defaults predefined
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Airline theme much extended
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Palette totals 6 shades of each color, and 16 dark/gray shades. All are fully exported not just as predifined highlight groups, but individually as well, so that extending functionality or making minor tweaks doesn¨t require digging into the code or looking up hex codes.
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Code is much more dense and (imo) easy to get an overview of
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Also available (or soon to be) for [tmux][] and [Fish shell][], as approximate 256color versions for [ranger][], [highlight][], and (basic variant) as terminal colors for [iTerm2][] Fix when finished: grc,
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Extended filetype highlighting: Html, Xml, Vim (and ES6 with yajs.vim), Clojure, C, Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Objective-C, Go, Lua, MoonScript, Java, Markdown, Haskell
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Supported plugins, from Gruvbox: EasyMotion, vim-sneak, Indent Guides, indentLine, Rainbow Parentheses, Airline, Lightline, GitGutter, Signify, ShowMarks, Signature, Syntastic, CtrlP, Startify
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New: [Lista][], [Metabuffer][], [ALE][], [Undotree][], [HighlightYankedregion][], [NERDTree][]
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Improved: GitGutter, vim-sneak, EasyMotion
Vim-related:
- CursorLine gets overruled by IndentGuides, which (I find) actually makes things easier to see, but breaks the coherent look a bit. In the same vein, underlined CursorLine (in insert mode) does not get cut off by ColorColumn, and is shown in all windows, not just the active one. That is of course true for the CursorLine in general, but the background dimming hides it nicely.
- Search text fg, in 'inactive' areas (other windows, past ColorColumn etc) is black instead of white, ie hard to read on a default dark blue bg. Gives a rather nice effect, and usually not an issue, but not ideal when one has multiple search matches.
Welcome
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Clean up enough for others to use
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Complete readme
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HIGH++ contrast mode for dark mode outdoors
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More plugs - SemanticHighlight, proper for Rainbow, NERDTree git plugin, DevIcons (first just Coldevicons palette then properly?) General helper plug doing all the little things a colorscheme really really oughtn't get involved with, but that's still needed for the proper "skin" experience. Like: implement the auto ColorColumn-based fade instead of relying on external plug...